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Today we’re going to do a whirlwind tour of compensation. Hopefully, you’ll learn a bit along the way, and I’ll share an exercise for managers called a compensation review.

What Do You Need To Know About Salary?

  • The largest expense for engineering organizations is usually salary. 
  • Salary is mostly determined by supply and demand. Engineers are fortunate to be an industry with high demand. Companies have to compete based on salary and benefits in order to hire good engineers. 

Structured Pay and “Pay Equity”

Some companies use structured pay. Structured pay is when there is a “system” for determining pay:

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Last month, we were very fortunate to have André Meyer come into Tasktop to give a presentation on fostering software developer productivity. For many years André has been working with a research team with one of our company co-founders, Gail Murphy, to address the ongoing supply and demand shortage in software delivery.

As "software continues to eat the world," the need for software is outstripping our ability to supply it. Just how do we enable and empower software developers to build better software faster and make them more productive?

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